Vinocur Settles with Marmot Mountain Re: Flame Retardants

Laurence Vinocur has successfully negotiated a settlement with Marmot Mountain in regard to allegations that Marmot Mountain sold tents whose fabrics contained the flame retardant TDCPP without the requisite health hazard warning.  TDCPP is known to the State of California to cause cancer, and companies offering products for sale that contain TDCPP must provide consumers with a warning of the risk of exposure.

In addition to paying civil penalties, Marmot has agreed to sell in California only tents that are virtually free of not only TDCPP, but additional flame retardants TCEP and TDBPP, which are also known to the State of California to be carcinogenic.  Should Marmot accelerate reformulation and provide Vinocur with evidence of such by April 15, 2016, Vinocur has generously agreed to waive a significant portion of the civil penalty that would otherwise be applied.

For more details and to read the settlement itself, please see the case summary on our website: Vinocur v. Marmot Mountain, LLC

The Chanler Group represents citizen enforcers who, acting in the public interest, commence actions against businesses offering products for sale in California that contain chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm without first providing the health hazard warning required by Proposition 65. Citizen enforcers bringing Proposition 65 actions in the public interest may obtain a Court Judgment imposing civil penalties, an injunction requiring reformulation of products, and/or provision of health hazard warnings